Palma
Palma is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 699th, in 1914.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1925100 births
- Best rank
- #699in 1914
- Since 1889
- 3,569people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,569 girls have been named Palma in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 100 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 100 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Palma | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 83 | |
| 1900s | 174 | |
| 1910s | 648 | |
| 1920s | 859 | |
| 1930s | 559 | |
| 1940s | 496 | |
| 1950s | 451 | |
| 1960s | 188 | |
| 1970s | 76 | |
| 1980s | 10 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 10 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Palma was the 741st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Palma
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laurinepeak 1918
- Maryepeak 1920
- Trulapeak 1923
- Florinepeak 1921
- Margaritepeak 1925
- Wavapeak 1924
- Claricepeak 1921
- Lorainepeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.